Weirdness: Nintendo's Better at Promoting the Vita Than Sony

We all drop the odd clanger from time to time – Watch Dogs footage, anyone? – but its better when a giant corporation does it. Indeed, this latest hiccup by Nintendo is especially humorous – as it’s somehow managed to post a PlayStation Vita video while attempting to promote our sister site Nintendo Life’s latest eShop favourites. Not even J.K. Rowling could dream this up.

The erroneous tweet has since been removed, but we can’t help but giggle at the fact that Satoru Iwata’s army has now done more to promote Sony’s revised handheld in Europe than the Japanese giant has itself. Seriously, that system launched with barely a whisper – we’d almost forgotten about it until we saw this amusing message. Nintendo does what PlayStation don’t?

@DHW I think they had 'The Best Place to Play' or something like that. You're right, though, not especially memorable. There was an American one, too, but I can't for the life of me think what it was. Greatness Awaits and For the Players have been much more successful.

I think Nintendo has been so busy promoting MK8 alongside the Wii U lately - something they failed to do Wii U's first 18 months on the market - that they just got carried away and couldn't help themselves from promoting the Vita as well.

@ErnisDy Two problems. First of all, "good games" is entirely subjective to the audience. For example, I don't think PS4 has any good games. Second, that would make sense if the Vita were selling like crazy, but it's not.